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Punam Denley is a Solicitor and Partner at Blanchards Law. Blanchards Law are specialist divorce lawyers offering expert advice on divorce, financial and children issues, cohabitation, and inheritance claims.

It has been reported in the last few days that the English court has rejected an appeal from a Dr Zaid Al-Saffar to overturn the financial order made in her favour. Dr al-Saffar is a consultant rheumatologist at Scarborough Hospital in North Yorkshire, and the head of the town’s Islamic society. He married Hanan Al-Saffar in April 2000 and the couple had two children before separating in 2008.

The recent High Court Chancery Division case of re Raithatha –v- Williamson ([2012] EWHC 909 (Ch)) establishes a new legal precedent whereby a bankrupt can be ordered to draw down his pension in order to satisfy an Income Payment Order on bankruptcy.